Bahamas Electrical Workers Union (BEWU) President Paul Maynard said he does not support a bid to allow Bahamian born women to pass on citizenship to their foreign spouses.
He said he intends to vote no to this question in the November 6 constitutional referendum.
"I cannot trust my daughter and my granddaughter to do the right thing," said Maynard in a recent interview.
"I have one daughter. She is 26, and I have a granddaughter who is seven, and I am not going to put that kind of pressure on them, not with these clowns out there; these lackluster, shiftless, trifling negros out there. Are you crazy? No man, I am not into that."
He added, "I will take all comers on, all. All of those women out there who are running on and talking foolishness, I am telling you now it can't happen here.
"'No', that's what I'm voting. Now I may get defeated, but you know what, one day they will see."
Maynard said that he will vote in favor of the other three constitutional amendments that seek to end gender discrimination in the constitution.
Four bills to amend The Bahamas constitution were recently tabled in Parliament.
The bills will institute full equality between men and women in matters of citizenship and will eliminate discrimination in The Bahamas based on sex, the prime minister said.
The proposed amendment Maynard was referring to seeks to enable a Bahamian woman who marries a foreign man to secure the same access to Bahamian citizenship that a Bahamian man enjoys under the constitution as it relates to his foreign spouse.
As a precaution, Prime Minister Perry Christie said provisions would be made to ensure that foreign people who enter into bogus marriages with Bahamians will not be assisted by the constitutional change.
But Maynard asked, "Who is going to be able to tell it is a bogus marriage?"
Tall Pines MP Leslie Miller, who is also the executive chairman of BEC, has also said that he has concerns with that bill.
"If my sister marries a foreigner, I expect for that foreigner to take her home to his country and support her," Miller said.
Marco City MP Greg Moss and Fort Charlotte MP Dr. Andre Rollins have also stated that they have concerns with the bills.
Maynard said he believes that foreign men are preying on Bahamian women.
"I don't agree with it," he said of bill number two.
"This country owes Bahamian men a living. This country owes Bahamian women a living. We don't owe the foreign husband of Bahamian women a living.
"You are expected, when you get married, to take your wife and you take care of her.
"When you get married to a woman, if you live in England or Germany or wherever, you take her back to Germany or England and you take care of her there.
"You won't have any automatic citizenship with me. You can't have the same rights that I get in this country. I am a Bahamian born here. This country owes me a living."
Maynard's comments were made one day before Miller's.
When asked if his views were sexist, Maynard said, "You can call it what you like".
In order for constitutional changes to take place, the bills must be approved with at least three quarters support in both the House of Assembly and Senate.
The bills must then be approved by a simple majority of voters in a referendum.
Opposition Leader Dr. Hubert Minnis has indicated that the Free National Movement will not oppose the bills. However, Montagu MP Richard Lightbourn has expressed concern about the constitutional amendment bill number three.
The bill seeks to reverse the law that prohibits an unwed Bahamian man from passing his citizenship to his child if he or she is born to a foreign woman.
St. Anne's MP Hubert Chipman yesterday said he is concerned about bill number four.
That bill seeks to make it unconstitutional for any law or any person acting in the performance of any public office to discriminate based on sex.
Debate on the four bills is expected to resume tomorrow.

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